Art History

Overview

Welcome to the History of Art Department at UC Berkeley. The department is among the smallest of the top dozen art history programs in the country with 16 faculty members, about 50 graduate students, and 100 or so undergraduate majors. Over the last 30 years, the National Research Council (NRC) has consistently ranked UC Berkeley's program among the top three. In the most recent NRC ranking, it appeared in first place, tied with another program. The department’s traditional strengths are in European and Asian Art, but in the past five years, we have expanded our coverage of the art of the Americas to include Pre-Columbian and Latin American as well as the full range of modern and contemporary American art.

The department’s offices are located in Doe Library on the Berkeley campus on the fourth floor of the finest humanities research library on the West Coast. We are situated in close proximity to both the department’s Visual Resources Center, which curates a substantial and growing body of digital images, and to the Art History/Classics Library. Many of the History of Art graduate seminars are held in the Jean Bony Seminar Room of this noncirculating library. Some further examples of the Berkeley program’s special resources are the annual Judith K. Stronach Travel Seminar, the annual Mary C. Stoddard Lecture in the History of Art, and the Curatorial Preparedness Initiative (funded over six years from the Mellon Foundation for a total of $1,250,000).

Visual Resources Center

The Visual Resources Center (VRC) supports the History of Art department in the areas of digital teaching, image research, and audiovisual support. The VRC builds and maintains a collection of images for instructional and research purposes. The collection encompasses images of art and architecture of the world ranging from prehistory to contemporary art. The VRC adds approximately 5,000 images per year to the collection, based largely on faculty requests. The facility is located in 307 Doe Library, situated within the Art History/Classics Library on the third floor of Doe Library. For further information, see the History of Art Department website.

Undergraduate Programs

Graduate Program

Courses

Art History

HISTART R1BReading and Writing about Visual Experience4 Units

Terms offered: Summer 2018 First 6 Week Session, Summer 2018 Second 6 Week Session, Spring 2018
How do mechanisms of perception structure responses to visual art? What is at stake when words describe images? By means of intensive looking, thinking, speaking, and writing, this course introduces the student to a series of problems and issues in the description and analysis of works of art. Because the course is also an introduction to the historical study of art, it is intended for students with no previous course work in the field. Satisfies the second half of the Reading and Composition requirement.Reading and Writing about Visual Experience: Read More [+]

Rules & Requirements

Prerequisites: UC Entry Level Writing Requirement, English 1A, or equivalent.<BR/>Previously passed an R_A course with a letter grade of C- or better.<BR/>Previously passed an articulated R_A course with a letter grade of C- or better.<BR/>Score a 4 on the Advanced Placement Exam in English Literature and Composition.<BR/>Score a 4 or 5 on the Advanced Placement Exam in English Language and Composition.<BR/>Score of 5, 6, or 7 on the International Baccalaureate Higher Level Examination in English

Requirements this course satisfies: Satisfies the second half of the Reading and Composition requirement

HISTART 10Introduction to Western Art: Ancient to Medieval4 Units

Terms offered: Fall 2014, Summer 2011 First 6 Week Session, Fall 2010
An introduction to the art of Egypt, Greece, Rome, and the European Middle Ages. Works of painting, sculpture, and architecture are presented chronologically and interpreted within their particular historical circumstances. The course focuses on themes such as the social and ideological functions of art, strategies of realism and abstraction, rhetorics of the material and immaterial, patronage and the construction of viewing, etc. It enables students to acquire the perceptual and critical skills to enjoy, interpret, and question works of art. Like 11, this course is recommended for potential majors and for students in other disciplines, both humanities and sciences.Introduction to Western Art: Ancient to Medieval: Read More [+]

Rules & Requirements

Prerequisites: May follow 1B or precede 11, though neither is required

HISTART 10BHistory of Western Art: Renaissance to Modern3 Units

Terms offered: Summer 2014 10 Week Session
An historical survey of selected works of painting, sculpture, and architecture from the Renaissance to the present. Stress is placed on the acquistion of perceptual and critical skills, the analysis and interpretation of style and meaning, and the ability to relate works to a broader visual tradition and historical context.History of Western Art: Renaissance to Modern: Read More [+]

HISTART N10Introduction to Western Art: Ancient to Medieval3 Units

Terms offered: Summer 1998 10 Week Session
An introduction to the art of ancient Egypt, Greece, Rome, and the European Middle Ages. Painting, sculpture, and architecture are presented chronologically and considered in relation to their historical and cultural circumstances. The course aims to provide students with a basic knowledge of how artworks balance past tradition with innovation; how people actually looked at artworks and what they valued in them; how works of art were commissioned and displayed; how artists went about their work; and how genre and medium affected an artwork's appearance. The question of artistic quality will be central to the course. In the process, the student will acquire a critical vocabulary for thinking and writing about art. Recommended both for potential majors and for students with a general interest in the topic.Introduction to Western Art: Ancient to Medieval: Read More [+]

HISTART 11Introduction to Western Art: Renaissance to the Present4 Units

Terms offered: Spring 2018, Spring 2017, Spring 2016
An introduction to the historical circumstances and visual character of Western art from the Renaissance to the present. Not a chronological survey, but an exploration of topics and themes central to this period. For example: What tasks did painting and sculpture perform in the past? For whom, at whose expense? How do the rise of landscape painting, the cult of the artist, and the new emphasis on the nude relate to the emergence of modern society? Do stylistic labels like Classicism, Realism, Impressionism, and Modernism help us answer such questions? This course is recommended for potential majors and for students in other disciplines, both humanities and sciences.Introduction to Western Art: Renaissance to the Present: Read More [+]

HISTART N11Western Art from the Renaissance to the Present4 Units

Terms offered: Summer 2018 Second 6 Week Session
This course is an introduction to the visual arts of Europe and the USA from the 14th century to the present day. This course will attempt to situate works of art into long, general trends in art practice of the Western tradition, though it will prioritize sustained focus on single case-studies which punctuate the five centuries of art for which this course offers a historical account; attention will also gather around particular representative artists’ careers. We’ll explore how the fine arts can be considered as part of wider visual culture(s) in the Western tradition, and the ways art within such a broad tradition can function both as a stabilizing and as a transformative force within social/political/religious/racial/etc contexts.Western Art from the Renaissance to the Present: Read More [+]

HISTART 12History of Western Art: Renaissance to Modern3 Units

Terms offered: Summer 2009 10 Week Session, Summer 2009 First 6 Week Session, Summer 2008 First 6 Week Session
A historical survey of selected works of painting, sculpture, and architecture from the Renaissance to the present. Stress is placed on the acquisition of perceptual and critical skills, the analysis and interpretation of style and meaning, and the ability to relate works to a broader visual tradition and historical context.History of Western Art: Renaissance to Modern: Read More [+]

HISTART 14The Origins of Art4 Units

Terms offered: Spring 2018
This course will explore ways in which the “the origins of art”—of human creativity in the visual and spatial arts—have been considered by a variety of artists, critics, and scholars.

HISTART 24Freshman Seminar1 Unit

Terms offered: Spring 2017, Fall 2016, Spring 2014
The Freshman Seminar Program has been designed to provide new students with the opportunity to explore an intellectual topic with a faculty member in a small-seminar setting. Freshman Seminars are offered in all campus departments, and topics may vary from department to department and semester to semester. Enrollment limited to fifteen freshman.Freshman Seminar: Read More [+]

Rules & Requirements

Repeat rules: Course may be repeated for credit when topic changes. Course may be repeated for credit when topic changes.

Hours & Format

Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 1 hour of seminar per week

Additional Details

Subject/Course Level: History of Art/Undergraduate

Grading/Final exam status: The grading option will be decided by the instructor when the class is offered. Final exam required.

HISTART 27Visual Cultures of Africa4 Units

Terms offered: Spring 2016
Rather than follow a master chronology that would attempt to contain Africa’s multiple cultural formations in a single narrative, this course will introduce students to African art through an investigation of a range of aesthetic traditions and movements across sub-Saharan Africa that are meaningfully reinvigorated in contemporary artistic production and popular visual culture. Our continual return to the cultural politics of the present will provide an anchor and roadmap for our inquiry; we will see contemporary visual culture as staging interventions that push at Western ideas of “primitive African tradition,” while bringing to the fore conventions that, when tracked, reveal alternative traditions legible within an art historical context.Visual Cultures of Africa: Read More [+]

HISTART 30Art of India4 Units

Terms offered: Fall 2014, Fall 2012, Spring 2008
This course surveys the arts of India from 2000 BC to the present, including painting, sculpture, and architecture. It treats prehistoric material (Indus Valley), Buddhist sculpture and painting, Hindu temples and their images, miniature painting, and modern art. Art will be considered in relation to its religious, political, and social contexts. The course will normally focus on major monuments, seen from multiple viewpoints, or upon problems and issues that relate the art of this area to traditions of other parts of the world (or differentiate it from them). No previous background is presumed, and students will be introduced to basic art-historical methods of viewing and analysis.Art of India: Read More [+]

HISTART N31Arts of East Asia3 Units

Terms offered: Summer 2003 10 Week Session, Summer 2001 10 Week Session
This course surveys the artistic traditions of China, Korea, and Japan over six millennia. Through lectures and readings, students are introduced to themes central to the development of art in East Asia. We begin with the form, meaning, and function of archaeological remains, then turn to consider the role of art in Buddhist ritual and worship. Lectures on secular painting will focus on the complex interactions of text and image, and on alternative modes of visualizing exeamplary conduct. Theoretical issues and visual analysis of individual works will be introduced through weekly guided discussions.Arts of East Asia: Read More [+]

HISTART 32The Arts of Korea4 Units

Terms offered: Fall 2010, Summer 2010 10 Week Session, Summer 2010 Second 6 Week Session
This course will introduce the arts and culture of Korea from the prehistoric period through the early twentieth century. Significant examples of painting, ceramics, sculpture, metalwork, and photography will be closely examined in their political, social, and cultural contexts. Korean art will also be presented in its East Asian context and compared to Chinese and Japanese art. No prior knowledge of Korean art or history, or Chinese or Korean languages, is expected.The Arts of Korea: Read More [+]

HISTART 33Buddhist Art of Asia3 Units

Terms offered: Summer 2004 10 Week Session, Summer 2002 10 Week Session, Summer 2000 10 Week Session
A survey of Buddhist art and architecture of Asia from 566 B.C.E. to the 19th century, including India, China, Japan, Tibet, Sri Lanka, and Southeast Asia. How works of art and architecture reflect or engage with the doctrine and practice of different schools of Buddhism. Topics include the making of "the Buddha image," the relationship between patronage, styles, and the ritual use of arts, the notion of sacred space, and the political usage of Buddha images. Discussion of issues such as the body, gender, and sexuality in the light of Buddhist arts and cultural context.Buddhist Art of Asia: Read More [+]

HISTART 34Arts of China4 Units

Terms offered: Spring 2015, Spring 2014, Fall 2011
An introduction to the arts of China, designed for newcomers to the history of art or to the study of Chinese culture. Lectures will survey six millennia of Chinese art thematically and chronologically, including the burial arts of the Neolithic period through the Tang dynasty (4th M. BCE-10th C. CE), Buddhist and Daoist ritual arts, and painting and calligraphy. Lectures, readings, and discussions will introduce students to various systems of Chinese thought, modes of visual analysis, and art historical method.Arts of China: Read More [+]

HISTART 35Art and Architecture in Japan4 Units

Terms offered: Spring 2017, Fall 2015, Fall 2013
This course is an introduction to art and architecture in Japan. It is intended for newcomers to the history of art and/or to the study of Japanese history and culture. Lectures will proceed chronologically, beginning with the archaeological objects and tumuli of neolithic Japan and ending with the popular graphic arts of the seventeenth to nineteenth centuries and modern transformations of art.Art and Architecture in Japan: Read More [+]

HISTART 36ASIA MODERN: Art + Architecture, 1800-present4 Units

Terms offered: Fall 2017
This course is an introduction to the art and architecture of modern South, Southeast, and East Asia. Using a comparative perspective, each week will focus on a set of case studies—the work of particular artists and art movements or the architecture of specific Asian cities—to reconstruct an expansive history of modern art and architecture in Asia from 1800 to the present. Class lectures will be completed by a close examination of modern Asian art collections on campus and in the Bay Area. We will also engage with numerous diasporic Asian artists who live and work in the area.

HISTART 39Freshman/Sophomore Seminar1.5 - 2 Units

Terms offered: Prior to 2007
Freshman and sophomore seminars offer lower division students the opportunity to explore an intellectual topic with a faculty member and a group of peers in a small-seminar setting. These seminars are offered in all campus departments; topics vary from department to department and from semester to semester. Enrollment limits are set by faculty, but the suggested limit is 25.Freshman/Sophomore Seminar: Read More [+]

Rules & Requirements

Repeat rules: Course may be repeated for credit when topic changes. Course may be repeated for credit when topic changes.

Hours & Format

Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 1-2 hours of seminar per week

Additional Details

Subject/Course Level: History of Art/Undergraduate

Grading/Final exam status: The grading option will be decided by the instructor when the class is offered. Final exam not required.

HISTART 39AFreshman/Sophomore Seminar1.5 - 4 Units

Terms offered: Fall 2009, Fall 2008, Fall 2007
Freshman and sophomore seminars offer lower division students the opportunity to explore an intellectual topic with a faculty member and a group of peers in a small-seminar setting. These seminars are offered in all campus departments; topics vary from department to department and from semester to semester. Enrollment limits are set by faculty, but the suggested limit is 25.Freshman/Sophomore Seminar: Read More [+]

Rules & Requirements

Repeat rules: Course may be repeated for credit when topic changes. Course may be repeated for credit when topic changes.

HISTART 39BFreshman/Sophomore Seminar1.5 - 4 Units

Terms offered: Prior to 2007
Freshman and sophomore seminars offer lower division students the opportunity to explore an intellectual topic with a faculty member and a group of peers in a small-seminar setting. These seminars are offered in all campus departments; topics vary from department to department and from semester to semester. Enrollment limits are set by faculty, but the suggested limit is 25.Freshman/Sophomore Seminar: Read More [+]

Rules & Requirements

Repeat rules: Course may be repeated for credit when topic changes. Course may be repeated for credit when topic changes.

HISTART 39CFreshman/Sophomore Seminar1.5 - 4 Units

Terms offered: Prior to 2007
Freshman and sophomore seminars offer lower division students the opportunity to explore an intellectual topic with a faculty member and a group of peers in a small-seminar setting. These seminars are offered in all campus departments; topics vary from department to department and from semester to semester. Enrollment limits are set by faculty, but the suggested limit is 25.Freshman/Sophomore Seminar: Read More [+]

Rules & Requirements

Repeat rules: Course may be repeated for credit when topic changes. Course may be repeated for credit when topic changes.

HISTART 39DFreshman/Sophomore Seminar1.5 - 4 Units

Terms offered: Prior to 2007
Freshman and sophomore seminars offer lower division students the opportunity to explore an intellectual topic with a faculty member and a group of peers in a small-seminar setting. These seminars are offered in all campus departments; topics vary from department to department and from semester to semester. Enrollment limits are set by faculty, but the suggested limit is 25.Freshman/Sophomore Seminar: Read More [+]

Rules & Requirements

Repeat rules: Course may be repeated for credit when topic changes. Course may be repeated for credit when topic changes.

HISTART 39EFreshman/Sophomore Seminar1.5 - 4 Units

Terms offered: Fall 2012
Freshman and sophomore seminars offer lower division students the opportunity to explore an intellectual topic with a faculty member and a group of peers in a small-seminar setting. These seminars are offered in all campus departments; topics vary from department to department and from semester to semester. Enrollment limits are set by faculty, but the suggested limit is 25.Freshman/Sophomore Seminar: Read More [+]

Rules & Requirements

Repeat rules: Course may be repeated for credit when topic changes. Course may be repeated for credit when topic changes.

HISTART 39FFreshman/Sophomore Seminar1.5 - 4 Units

Terms offered: Spring 2013
Freshman and sophomore seminars offer lower division students the opportunity to explore an intellectual topic with a faculty member and a group of peers in a small-seminar setting. These seminars are offered in all campus departments; topics vary from department to department and from semester to semester. Enrollment limits are set by faculty, but the suggested limit is 25.Freshman/Sophomore Seminar: Read More [+]

Rules & Requirements

Repeat rules: Course may be repeated for credit when topic changes. Course may be repeated for credit when topic changes.

HISTART 39GFreshman/Sophomore Seminar1.5 - 4 Units

Terms offered: Fall 2016
Freshman and sophomore seminars offer lower division students the opportunity to explore an intellectual topic with a faculty member and a group of peers in a small-seminar setting. These seminars are offered in all campus departments; topics vary from department to department and from semester to semester. Enrollment limits are set by faculty, but the suggested limit is 25.Freshman/Sophomore Seminar: Read More [+]

Rules & Requirements

Repeat rules: Course may be repeated for credit when topic changes. Course may be repeated for credit when topic changes.

HISTART 39HFreshman/Sophomore Seminar1.5 - 4 Units

Terms offered: Prior to 2007
Freshman and sophomore seminars offer lower division students the opportunity to explore an intellectual topic with a faculty member and a group of peers in a small-seminar setting. These seminars are offered in all campus departments; topics vary from department to department and from semester to semester. Enrollment limits are set by faculty, but the suggested limit is 25.Freshman/Sophomore Seminar: Read More [+]

Rules & Requirements

Repeat rules: Course may be repeated for credit when topic changes. Course may be repeated for credit when topic changes.

HISTART 39IFreshman/Sophomore Seminar1.5 - 4 Units

Terms offered: Prior to 2007
Freshman and sophomore seminars offer lower division students the opportunity to explore an intellectual topic with a faculty member and a group of peers in a small-seminar setting. These seminars are offered in all campus departments; topics vary from department to department and from semester to semester. Enrollment limits are set by faculty, but the suggested limit is 25.Freshman/Sophomore Seminar: Read More [+]

Rules & Requirements

Repeat rules: Course may be repeated for credit when topic changes. Course may be repeated for credit when topic changes.

HISTART 39JFreshman/Sophomore Seminar1.5 - 4 Units

Terms offered: Prior to 2007
Freshman and sophomore seminars offer lower division students the opportunity to explore an intellectual topic with a faculty member and a group of peers in a small-seminar setting. These seminars are offered in all campus departments; topics vary from department to department and from semester to semester. Enrollment limits are set by faculty, but the suggested limit is 25.Freshman/Sophomore Seminar: Read More [+]

Rules & Requirements

Repeat rules: Course may be repeated for credit when topic changes. Course may be repeated for credit when topic changes.

HISTART 39KFreshman/Sophomore Seminar1.5 - 4 Units

Terms offered: Prior to 2007
Freshman and sophomore seminars offer lower division students the opportunity to explore an intellectual topic with a faculty member and a group of peers in a small-seminar setting. These seminars are offered in all campus departments; topics vary from department to department and from semester to semester. Enrollment limits are set by faculty, but the suggested limit is 25.Freshman/Sophomore Seminar: Read More [+]

Rules & Requirements

Repeat rules: Course may be repeated for credit when topic changes. Course may be repeated for credit when topic changes.

HISTART 39LFreshman/Sophomore Seminar1.5 - 4 Units

Terms offered: Prior to 2007
Freshman and sophomore seminars offer lower division students the opportunity to explore an intellectual topic with a faculty member and a group of peers in a small-seminar setting. These seminars are offered in all campus departments; topics vary from department to department and from semester to semester. Enrollment limits are set by faculty, but the suggested limit is 25.Freshman/Sophomore Seminar: Read More [+]

Rules & Requirements

Repeat rules: Course may be repeated for credit when topic changes. Course may be repeated for credit when topic changes.

HISTART 39MFreshman/Sophomore Seminar1.5 - 4 Units

Terms offered: Prior to 2007
Freshman and sophomore seminars offer lower division students the opportunity to explore an intellectual topic with a faculty member and a group of peers in a small-seminar setting. These seminars are offered in all campus departments; topics vary from department to department and from semester to semester. Enrollment limits are set by faculty, but the suggested limit is 25.Freshman/Sophomore Seminar: Read More [+]

HISTART 39NFreshman/Sophomore Seminar1.5 - 4 Units

Terms offered: Prior to 2007
Freshman and sophomore seminars offer lower division students the opportunity to explore an intellectual topic with a faculty member and a group of peers in a small-seminar setting. These seminars are offered in all campus departments; topics vary from department to department and from semester to semester. Enrollment limits are set by faculty, but the suggested limit is 25.Freshman/Sophomore Seminar: Read More [+]

HISTART 39OFreshman/Sophomore Seminar1.5 - 4 Units

Terms offered: Prior to 2007
Freshman and sophomore seminars offer lower division students the opportunity to explore an intellectual topic with a faculty member and a group of peers in a small-seminar setting. These seminars are offered in all campus departments; topics vary from department to department and from semester to semester. Enrollment limits are set by faculty, but the suggested limit is 25.Freshman/Sophomore Seminar: Read More [+]

HISTART 39PFreshman/Sophomore Seminar1.5 - 4 Units

Terms offered: Prior to 2007
Freshman and sophomore seminars offer lower division students the opportunity to explore an intellectual topic with a faculty member and a group of peers in a small-seminar setting. These seminars are offered in all campus departments; topics vary from department to department and from semester to semester. Enrollment limits are set by faculty, but the suggested limit is 25.Freshman/Sophomore Seminar: Read More [+]

HISTART 39QFreshman/Sophomore Seminar1.5 - 4 Units

Terms offered: Prior to 2007
Freshman and sophomore seminars offer lower division students the opportunity to explore an intellectual topic with a faculty member and a group of peers in a small-seminar setting. These seminars are offered in all campus departments; topics vary from department to department and from semester to semester. Enrollment limits are set by faculty, but the suggested limit is 25.Freshman/Sophomore Seminar: Read More [+]

HISTART 39RFreshman/Sophomore Seminar1.5 - 4 Units

Terms offered: Prior to 2007
Freshman and sophomore seminars offer lower division students the opportunity to explore an intellectual topic with a faculty member and a group of peers in a small-seminar setting. These seminars are offered in all campus departments; topics vary from department to department and from semester to semester. Enrollment limits are set by faculty, but the suggested limit is 25.Freshman/Sophomore Seminar: Read More [+]

HISTART 39SFreshman/Sophomore Seminar1.5 - 4 Units

Terms offered: Prior to 2007
Freshman and sophomore seminars offer lower division students the opportunity to explore an intellectual topic with a faculty member and a group of peers in a small-seminar setting. These seminars are offered in all campus departments; topics vary from department to department and from semester to semester. Enrollment limits are set by faculty, but the suggested limit is 25.Freshman/Sophomore Seminar: Read More [+]

HISTART 39TFreshman/Sophomore Seminar1.5 - 4 Units

Terms offered: Prior to 2007
Freshman and sophomore seminars offer lower division students the opportunity to explore an intellectual topic with a faculty member and a group of peers in a small-seminar setting. These seminars are offered in all campus departments; topics vary from department to department and from semester to semester. Enrollment limits are set by faculty, but the suggested limit is 25.Freshman/Sophomore Seminar: Read More [+]

HISTART 39UFreshman/Sophomore Seminar1.5 - 4 Units

Terms offered: Prior to 2007
Freshman and sophomore seminars offer lower division students the opportunity to explore an intellectual topic with a faculty member and a group of peers in a small-seminar setting. These seminars are offered in all campus departments; topics vary from department to department and from semester to semester. Enrollment limits are set by faculty, but the suggested limit is 25.Freshman/Sophomore Seminar: Read More [+]

HISTART 39VFreshman/Sophomore Seminar1.5 - 4 Units

Terms offered: Prior to 2007
Freshman and sophomore seminars offer lower division students the opportunity to explore an intellectual topic with a faculty member and a group of peers in a small-seminar setting. These seminars are offered in all campus departments; topics vary from department to department and from semester to semester. Enrollment limits are set by faculty, but the suggested limit is 25.Freshman/Sophomore Seminar: Read More [+]

HISTART 39WFreshman/Sophomore Seminar1.5 - 4 Units

Terms offered: Prior to 2007
Freshman and sophomore seminars offer lower division students the opportunity to explore an intellectual topic with a faculty member and a group of peers in a small-seminar setting. These seminars are offered in all campus departments; topics vary from department to department and from semester to semester. Enrollment limits are set by faculty, but the suggested limit is 25.Freshman/Sophomore Seminar: Read More [+]

HISTART 39XFreshman/Sophomore Seminar1.5 - 4 Units

Terms offered: Prior to 2007
Freshman and sophomore seminars offer lower division students the opportunity to explore an intellectual topic with a faculty member and a group of peers in a small-seminar setting. These seminars are offered in all campus departments; topics vary from department to department and from semester to semester. Enrollment limits are set by faculty, but the suggested limit is 25.Freshman/Sophomore Seminar: Read More [+]

HISTART 39YFreshman/Sophomore Seminar1.5 - 4 Units

Terms offered: Prior to 2007
Freshman and sophomore seminars offer lower division students the opportunity to explore an intellectual topic with a faculty member and a group of peers in a small-seminar setting. These seminars are offered in all campus departments; topics vary from department to department and from semester to semester. Enrollment limits are set by faculty, but the suggested limit is 25.Freshman/Sophomore Seminar: Read More [+]

HISTART 39ZFreshman/Sophomore Seminar1.5 - 4 Units

Terms offered: Prior to 2007
Freshman and sophomore seminars offer lower division students the opportunity to explore an intellectual topic with a faculty member and a group of peers in a small-seminar setting. These seminars are offered in all campus departments; topics vary from department to department and from semester to semester. Enrollment limits are set by faculty, but the suggested limit is 25.Freshman/Sophomore Seminar: Read More [+]

HISTART 41Introduction to Greek and Roman Art4 Units

Terms offered: Fall 2017, Fall 2011, Fall 2004
An introduction to the major works, themes, and agendas of Greek and Roman art and architecture. Participants will learn to acquire the perceptual and critical skills necessary for understanding these works; to analyze and interpret them; and to relate them to broader visual traditions, historical contexts, and social/cultural issues. Wherever possible, newly discovered work will be illustrated and discussed.Introduction to Greek and Roman Art: Read More [+]

HISTART 51Introduction to Medieval Art4 Units

Terms offered: Fall 2012, Spring 2005, Spring 2004
A selective, thematic exploration of the visual arts from the decline of the Roman empire to the beginnings of Early Modern period. The emergence of new artistic media, subject matter, and strategies of making and viewing will be discussedagainst the ever-shifting historical circumstances of medieval Europe. Emphasis will be placed on the methods of interpreting the works, especially in relation to then-current social practices and cultural values.Introduction to Medieval Art: Read More [+]

HISTART 62Introduction to Italian Renaissance Art4 Units

Terms offered: Fall 2016, Fall 2015, Fall 2014
Using a few selected examples drawn from Florence, Rome, Milan, and Venice, this course will introduce most types of art and architecture produced in the Italian Renaissance--including city squares, churches, palaces and libraries, and their painted and sculptural decoration. Special attention will be paid to various approaches used in interpreting works of art.Introduction to Italian Renaissance Art: Read More [+]

HISTART C62Introduction to Italian Renaissance Art4 Units

Terms offered: Prior to 2007

Using a few selected examples drawn from Florence, Rome, Milan, and Venice, this course will introduce most types of art and architecture produced in the Italian Renaissance--including city squares, churches, palaces and libraries, and their painted and sculptural decoration. Special attention will be paid to various approaches used in interpreting works of art.

HISTART 65Arts of the Renaissance and Reformation3 Units

Terms offered: Summer 2003 10 Week Session
The West's "modern" era had its beginnings in the 15th and 16th centuries. Social and economic organization, religious and political thought, were reconfigured into forms we recognize today. Within these configurations, art took on new roles: a commodity in a nascent capitalist society, a vehicle of propaganda by church and state, an expression of an individual's genius. In aesthetic terms, it took on properties which defined the modern. Italy and the Netherlands each contributed to the revolution in pictorial expression. This course investigates those contributions and considers how art expressed the world view of this age.Arts of the Renaissance and Reformation: Read More [+]

HISTART 80Introduction to Modern Art4 Units

Terms offered: Prior to 2007
An introduction to the major movements, themes, and artists of modern art, starting with its origins in the nineteenth century. Close attention will be paid to exhibition histories, the development of new forms of media, and shifts in visual culture within the context of the rise of modernity and modernization. No previous knowledge of the subject is presumed; students will be exposed to various modes of art historical interpretation and formal analysis.Introduction to Modern Art: Read More [+]

HISTART N80Introduction to Modern Art3 Units

Terms offered: Summer 2018 Second 6 Week Session, Summer 2017 Second 6 Week Session
An introduction to the major movements, themes, and artists of modern art, starting with its origins in the nineteenth century. Close attention will be paid to exhibition histories, the development of new forms of media, and shifts in visual culture within the context of the rise of modernity and modernization. No previous knowledge of the subject is presumed; students will be exposed to various modes of art historical interpretation and formal analysis.Introduction to Modern Art: Read More [+]

HISTART 87ACVisual Cultures of California4 Units

Terms offered: Spring 2017
This class introduces the diverse visual cultures of the geographic area now known as California. It considers how space and race are culturally represented and reproduced over a broad span of time and across California’s shifting political designations, including its Native American, Spanish, Mexican, and United States periods.

The long history of California includes encounter, domination, solidarity, coexistence, and revolution. Through consistent historical examination, the course will explore visual and material culture as a site in which many of these ways of managing life together occurred, were facilitated, or are preserved. Course sessions will be organized around chronological case studies of diverse subjects made in varied mediaVisual Cultures of California: Read More [+]

HISTART 88Arts of Latin America4 Units

Terms offered: Fall 2016, Fall 2014
An introduction to the arts and visual culture of Latin America from the earliest monumental art traditions of prehistory to the present. The course is not a comprehensive survey of all traditions of art in Latin America, but rather a sampling of critical moments that is designed to serve as an introduction to this field of study. We will take a long view of enduring traditions as well as periods of rupture and crisis. Lecture and discussion will frequently center on the active roles of the arts in society, religion, and politics from the earliest Pre-Columbian settings to the present day. No prior knowledge of Latin American art history is expected. This course is designed for both majors and non-majors in the humanities and sciences.Arts of Latin America: Read More [+]

Objectives Outcomes

Student Learning Outcomes: Develop knowledge and appreciation of the arts and cultures of Latin America from prehistory
Develop skills of visual analysis, expository writing, and oral communication
Engage critically with various kinds of evidence (archaeological, historical, visual, and material) available to art historical study
Examine the role of art and visual culture within society, politics, and religion in Latin America

HISTART 100Theories and Methods of Art History4 Units

Terms offered: Fall 2017, Spring 2017, Spring 2016
How art has been studied in the past and how it is currently studied, its historiography and methodology. Consideration of the earliest writers (Pliny, Vasari) but also modern approaches, from traditional style analysis and connoisseurship through the "founders" of modern art history (Panofsky, Riegl) to more recent approaches, e.g. psychoanalysis, feminism, social history, anthropology, semiotics, etc.Theories and Methods of Art History: Read More [+]

HISTART N100Theories and Methods of Art History4 Units

Terms offered: Summer 2017 Second 6 Week Session, Summer 2015 10 Week Session, Summer 2015 Second 6 Week Session
How art has been studied in the past and how it is currently studied, its historiography and methodology. Consideration of the earliest writers (Pliny, Vasari) but also modern approaches, from traditional style analysis and connoisseurship through the "founders" of modern art history (Panofsky, Riegl) to more recent approaches, e.g., psychoanalysis, feminism, social history, anthropology, semiotics, etc.Theories and Methods of Art History: Read More [+]

HISTART 101Theories & Methods for a Global History of Art4 Units

Terms offered: Spring 2018, Fall 2015
The purpose of this lecture course is to provide students with a toolbox for writing art history in many periods in a global field. We will proceed systematically, learning how to describe and analyze objects, do bibliographic research, use different methodological approaches, and learn to apply them with specific objects/works selected by the student.Theories & Methods for a Global History of Art: Read More [+]

HISTART N104Gender and Representation3 Units

Terms offered: Summer 2002 10 Week Session
A consideration of historical and theoretical issues posed for visual media by attention to issues of gender. Previous course work in art history recommended. Detailed descriptions of current and future offerings available in 416 Doe Library.Gender and Representation: Read More [+]

Terms offered: Not yet offered
The course offers a global history of ecologically conscious art, architecture, cinema, sustainable design, and urban planning. Case studies range from North American indigenous arts, Asian gardens, colonial medicine, and Renaissance experiments in botany to eco-activism in the Global South, biotech, urban planning, and contemporary green infrastructure. Key ecological concepts such as energy, waste, sustainability, environmental justice, and conservation are considered alongside economic, political, religious, engineering, and scientific experiments with the ecosystem from the prehistory to the present. Designed for both humanities and science students. No prior courses in art history or environmental science required.Eco Art: Art, Architecture, and the Natural Environment: Read More [+]

HISTART 107Images and the Law4 Units

Terms offered: Prior to 2007
This course explores issues at the intersection of the law and the visual arts. What is the relationship between the law and the visual arts? Does the law constrain the creation of art, or does it establish conditions under which artists can exercise their creativity more freely? When and how should the legal system be employed to promote or curtail the creation, display, or preservation of works of art?Images and the Law: Read More [+]

HISTART N107Images and the Law3 Units

Terms offered: Summer 2017 First 6 Week Session
This course explores issues at the intersection of the law and the visual arts. What is the relationship between the law and the visual arts? Does the law constrain the creation of art, or does it establish conditions under which artists can exercise their creativity more freely? When and how should the legal system be employed to promote or curtail the creation, display, or preservation of works of art?Images and the Law: Read More [+]

HISTART 108Cities and the Arts4 Units

Terms offered: Summer 2016 10 Week Session, Summer 2016 Second 6 Week Session, Summer 2015 Second 6 Week Session
The study of various urban centers at particular times in relation to the art produced there. Emphasis may be placed on the rise of artistic centers and professional communities, the representation of places of power, learning or recreation, the construction of urbanity, the reaction to cities, etc. Detailed descriptions of current and future offerings available in room 416 Doe Library.Cities and the Arts: Read More [+]

Rules & Requirements

Repeat rules: Course may be repeated for credit when topic changes. Course may be repeated for credit when topic changes.

HISTART 109Digital Humanities, Visual Cultures4 Units

Terms offered: Fall 2017
“Digital humanities” describes how digital formats and tools can be used to produce knowledge about cultural materials. This course introduces students to techniques used to study visual culture and related disciplines, possibly including mapping, network analysis, digital (re)construction of objects and environments; digital editions of texts or online exhibitions; digital manipulation of images; and content-management systems and structured data. The class also provides a framework to help students think critically about the values that underpin existing DH projects.

HISTART C109Digital Humanities, Visual Cultures4 Units

Terms offered: Spring 2017
“Digital humanities” describes how digital formats and tools can be used to produce knowledge about cultural materials. This course introduces students to techniques used to study visual culture and related disciplines, possibly including mapping, network analysis, digital (re)construction of objects and environments; digital editions of texts or online exhibitions; digital manipulation of images; and content-management systems and structured data. The class also provides a framework to help students think critically about the values that underpin existing DH projects.

HISTART 120The "Origins" of Art3 Units

Terms offered: Prior to 2007
For millions of years, hominid creatures quite like us made nothing like what we now take to be images or ornaments-"art." Why not? Between 32,000 and 26,000 BC, images and ornaments appear and proliferate. Why? When a workman shovels dirt, the pile is mere garbage. An artist exhibits an identical pile in a gallery as "art." What makes the difference? Detailed examination of paleolithic & prehistoric arts, children's drawings, & some contemporary practices.The "Origins" of Art: Read More [+]

HISTART C120AThe Art of Ancient Mesopotamia: 3500-1000 BCE4 Units

Terms offered: Fall 2011, Fall 2006
The art and architecture of early Mesopotamia will be explored in terms of the social, political, and cultural context of ancient Sumer, Babylonia, and Assyria during the period of urbanization and early kingdoms. The course provides an integrated picture of the arts of Mesopotamia and neighboring regions from 3500-1000 BCE with an emphasis on the development of visual narrative, the use of art in the expression of authority and legitimacy, and artistic interconnections between cultures. Collections on campus or in the area will be incorporated whenever possible.The Art of Ancient Mesopotamia: 3500-1000 BCE: Read More [+]

HISTART C120BThe Art of Ancient Mesopotamia: 1000-330 BCE4 Units

Terms offered: Fall 2012, Fall 2009, Fall 2004
The royal art and architecture of later Mesopotamia will be explored in terms of the social, political, and cultural context of the great empires of Assyria, Babylon, and Persia. The course provides an integrated picture of the arts of Mesopotamia and neighboring regions from 1000-330 BCE with an emphasis on the development of visual narrative, the use of art in the expression of authority and legitimacy, and artistic interconnections between cultures. Collections on campus or in the area will be incorporated whenever possible.The Art of Ancient Mesopotamia: 1000-330 BCE: Read More [+]

HISTART 127The Arts of Africa3 Units

Terms offered: Summer 1996 10 Week Session
A survey of the arts of black sub-Saharan Africa, including aspects of the Caribbean. Emphasizes major aesthetic/cultural complexes such as the Yoruba, the Manding, and the Kongo. The tension between "traditional arts" and contemporary studio practices, as well as all artistic traditions will be discussed within their social context. Aspects of mythology, history, social values, music, and dance as they relate to artistic traditions included. Films which emphasize this interaction to be shown.The Arts of Africa: Read More [+]

HISTART 130AEarly Chinese Art, Part I4 Units

Terms offered: Fall 2015, Spring 2013, Spring 2010
Chinese art of the Neolithic and Bronze Age. From the earliest period to the end of the Han dynasty (early third century A.D.), especially ceramics, bronzes, jade, and lacquer.Early Chinese Art, Part I: Read More [+]

HISTART 131ASacred Arts in China4 Units

Terms offered: Fall 2017, Fall 2013, Spring 2011
The history of the visual arts as used in Chinese religious practice, from the third century C.E. through the late imperial period. The course explores different modes of giving visible form to the sacred, expecially in the Daoist and Buddhist traditions, and tracks the movement of objects and visual concepts across Asia and between Daoists and Buddhists, monasteries, the imperial court, and elite and popular lay groups.Sacred Arts in China: Read More [+]

HISTART 131BThe Classical Painting Tradition in China4 Units

Terms offered: Spring 2018, Fall 2014, Summer 2008 Second 6 Week Session
The history of the art of painting in China from the third century C.E. through the late imperial period. The course takes a chronological and thematic approach to the classical tradition of Chinese painting and other arts of the brush expressed in a variety of elite and popular genres, considering them in the context of aesthetic and narrative theory, biography, economic history, social life, and politics.The Classical Painting Tradition in China: Read More [+]

HISTART 131CArt and Propaganda in Modern China4 Units

Terms offered: Fall 2012
The history of Chinese art from the end of the Qing dynasty in 1912 to the present, including the reformist movements of the early 20th century; the new urbanism and its visual articulation in advertising, photography, and popular arts; national style; politicized painting and woodblock prints in the Western style; Communist socialist realism; and the meaning of the avant-garde as both Communist ideological movement and anti-authoritarian concept.Art and Propaganda in Modern China: Read More [+]

HISTART 132AsiaAmerica: Asian American Art and Architecture4 Units

Terms offered: Spring 2018
This course focuses on modern and contemporary Asian American art and architecture from the mid-1800s to the present. Using a comparative perspective, each week utilizes case studies—works by particular artists, architects, or art groups—to examine what Asian American art looked like at specific historical junctures and what it meant to be an Asian American artist. A range of material practices, including painting, sculpture, installation, performance, new media, architecture, and graphic illustration are considered.AsiaAmerica: Asian American Art and Architecture: Read More [+]

HISTART 136ASouth Asian Art: Ancient4 Units

Terms offered: Spring 2015, Spring 2012, Fall 2008
Beginning with the earliest remains of cities, towns, and palaces in the Indus Valley region in present day India and Pakistan, this course traces the production of art and architecture in South Asia from 2500 BCE to 1200 CE. Focusing on the painting, sculpture, and architectural traditions of Hinduism, Buddhism, and Jainism, we will examine the aesthetic conventions, theological ideals, and political formations that emerged in early South Asia.South Asian Art: Ancient: Read More [+]

HISTART 136BSouth Asian Art: Early Modern4 Units

Terms offered: Fall 2010, Spring 2009, Spring 2006
South Asian art, architecture, calligraphy, painting, and urban cultures in the early modern period. Emphasis will be placed on interactions with the Islamic world and Europe.South Asian Art: Early Modern: Read More [+]

HISTART 137The Art of Southeast Asia4 Units

Terms offered: Spring 2010, Fall 2007, Fall 2004
The art of Cambodia, Vietnam, Thailand, Burma, and Indonesia focusing on the period from 400 to 1500 A.D. Sculpture and architecture will be considered as a balance of Indian and indigenous elements.The Art of Southeast Asia: Read More [+]

HISTART C140Minoan and Mycenaean Art4 Units

Terms offered: Fall 2010, Fall 2005
This course analyzes the art, architecture, and archaeology of prehistoric Greece, concentrating on the Minoan and Mycenaean palatial arts of the Bronze Age (3000-1200 BCE). The evocative yet still enigmatic remains of palaces and funerary complexes, frescoes and vase paintings, and precious worked pieces will be closely examined in terms of their forms and cultural contexts. The place of prehistoric Greece in the international world of the eastern Mediterranean will also be explored.Minoan and Mycenaean Art: Read More [+]

Terms offered: Summer 2006 10 Week Session, Summer 2005 10 Week Session, Summer 2004 10 Week Session
A training school for those with no previous experience in archaeology or ancient art. Volunteers are taught the elements of modern field archaeology, with discussion sessions on site stratigraphy, pottery, and other artifacts. Evening lectures on Israeli, Greaco-Roman, and Near Eastern archaelogy.Introduction to Archaeology: The Tel Dor Excavation: Read More [+]

HISTART 145ARoman Painting4 Units

Terms offered: Spring 2016
This course presents the surviving evidence for a wide range of pictorial representation in the Roman world, and addresses the many functions of painting in Roman life.Roman Painting: Read More [+]

HISTART 145BAncient Portraiture and Biography4 Units

Terms offered: Prior to 2007
Important individuals in Greek and Roman society were commemorated both in honorific portraits—bronze and marble statues set up in public places—and in biographies written to record for posterity their lives and achievements. We will be reading a selection of Greek and Latin biographical texts (in translation) and comparing them with statuary monuments that represent the same individuals. We will be seeking to elicit the points of contact between the two commemorative traditions, visual and literary, and to understand the sometimes similar functions they serve. But we will also be attempting to bring out the differences in the way that biographical texts and portrait images operate, and the consequences this has for historians.Ancient Portraiture and Biography: Read More [+]

HISTART C145APictorial Representation in the Roman World4 Units

Terms offered: Spring 2017
This course presents surviving evidence of pictorial representation in the Roman world. Including the earliest remains from the city of Rome; the suites of painted rooms in the houses of Pompeii and Herculaneum on the Bay of Naples; and Roman mosaics from Italy, North Africa, and the eastern Mediterranean.

Topics: ‘four styles’ of Pompeian interior decoration; the architect Vitruvius’ denunciation of contemporary painting in the early Augustan period; the reproduction of Greek ‘old master’ paintings from pattern books; the surviving paintings of the Domus Aurea, the emperor Nero’s ‘Golden House’ in Rome; the painting of marble statues and reliefs; and the colored mummy portraits preserved by the sands of the Egyptian desert.

HISTART 151Art in Late Antiquity4 Units

Terms offered: Spring 2018, Spring 2016, Spring 2012
Imperial art from Gallienus through the collapse of the western empire. Christian art from the beginning around 200 through the age of Justinian. Revivals in the seventh and eighth centuries. A look back from the court of Charlemagne and contemporary Constantinople.Art in Late Antiquity: Read More [+]

HISTART 155ARelics, Reliquaries and Cult Images4 Units

Terms offered: Spring 2015
A survey of the visual arts in Europe from about 800-1400 A.D. This lecture course explores the origins and transformations of Christian pre-modern visual culture. This class will analyze the revival of monumental sculpture in the context of liturgy, architecture, materiality of the minor arts and reliquaries, as well as medieval theories on perception. Emphasis is placed upon the broad artistic influence of the monastic, pilgrimage, and crusading movements.The elaboration of new iconographic themes and the influence of small scale precious works will receive special attention.Relics, Reliquaries and Cult Images: Read More [+]

Rules & Requirements

Repeat rules: Course may be repeated for credit with instructor consent. Course may be repeated for credit when topic changes.

HISTART 156AGothic Art in Northern Europe: 1150-12704 Units

Terms offered: Spring 2002
Gothic art and architecture from its origins in France about 1130. Emphasis on the related developments of architecture, sculpture, and stained glass at the major cathedrals, the impact of the early universities and scientific study, and the political role of the visual arts in the early nation states.Gothic Art in Northern Europe: 1150-1270: Read More [+]

HISTART C156BArt and Science4 Units

Terms offered: Fall 2013
This course explores the intersections of art and science in medieval, modern, and contemporary history. It focuses on the ways in which artistic and scientific practices have shaped and legitimated each other through the ages. The course takes the form of an overview that spans from the awakening of European culture through the reception of new knowledge from the Near East to the most recent encounters between art and technoscience in the 21st century.Art and Science: Read More [+]

HISTART C158Art and Science4 Units

Terms offered: Fall 2014
In this course we explore the intersections of art and science in medieval, modern, and contemporary history. Our aim is twofold. First, to explore the close interaction between these two fields, and the way in which they have shaped each other through the ages. Second, to focus our attention on specific instances of art/science interaction, using them as prisms through which one can reach a fuller understanding of major historical transformations.Art and Science: Read More [+]

HISTART 160Renaissance Art in Florence 1400-16004 Units

Terms offered: Spring 2013, Spring 2009, Fall 2005
A selective survey of major developments in Florentine Renaissance painting, sculpture, and architecture organized by genre. Particular emphasis on the relationship between art and religion and the ideology of Florentine republicanism and ducal absolutism. Issues of gender, the status of artists, and the function, audience, and patronage of art will also be considered.Renaissance Art in Florence 1400-1600: Read More [+]

HISTART 161Renaissance Art in Rome 1400-16004 Units

Terms offered: Fall 2010, Spring 2010, Spring 2007
A selective survey of major developments in Roman Renaissance painting, sculpture, and architecture organized by genre. Particular emphasis on the relationship between art and religion and the ideology of a theocratic papacy. Issues of gender, the status of artists, and the function, audience, and patronage of art will also be considered.Renaissance Art in Rome 1400-1600: Read More [+]

HISTART 162Renaissance Art in Venice 1400-16004 Units

Terms offered: Fall 2017, Fall 2010, Spring 2008
A selective survey of major developments in Venetian Renaissance painting, sculpture, and architecture organized by genre. Particular emphasis on the relationship between art and religion and the ideology of the Venetian commune. Issues of gender, the status of artists, and the function, audience, and patronage of art will also be considered.Renaissance Art in Venice 1400-1600: Read More [+]

HISTART 166Van Eyck to Brueghel4 Units

Terms offered: Fall 2011, Fall 2006, Fall 1999
The great age of Netherlandish art, from its roots in manuscript illumination through the masters of panel painting (Van Eyck, Van der Weyden, Bosch, Brueghel) up to the time of the iconoclasm of 1566. Focus on the relation of painting to the beholder; iconic vs. narrative images; rise of genres; art's expression of social and economic ideals; and class and gender issues.Van Eyck to Brueghel: Read More [+]

Terms offered: Spring 2016, Fall 2012
The Elizabethan Renaissance course will review texts, minor arts, costume, self-presentation, performance, pageantry, architecture, decoration, and other non-traditional routes of addressing issues of visual culture and representation, and their political and social meanings. The courses's goals are to explore the role of visuality in Renaissance England, and to develop research skills. Students learn to analyze primary sources, both visual and written, and to read secondary sources critically.Elizabethan Renaissance: Art, Culture, and Visuality: Read More [+]

HISTART 170Southern Baroque Art4 Units

Terms offered: Spring 2018, Fall 2014, Fall 2011
The major artists (among them Caravaggio, Bernini, Velazquez, and Poussin) and the major concerns (including genres such as history painting, landscape, low-life, and notions of imitation and illusionism) of seventeenth century art in Italy, France, and Spain.Southern Baroque Art: Read More [+]

HISTART 171Visual Culture in Early Modern Spain and Colonial Latin America4 Units

Terms offered: Fall 2015, Fall 2012
The mutual impact of European conquest on the visual and material cultures of Spain and Colonial Latin America. Paintings by El Greco, Velazquez, Zurburan, and Ribera are discussed in relation to the trans-Atlantic transmission of material objects including Mexican pictorial codices, European prints, architecture, screen paintings (biombos), featherwork, and enconchados.Visual Culture in Early Modern Spain and Colonial Latin America: Read More [+]

HISTART 173The Age of Rubens4 Units

Terms offered: Spring 2014, Spring 2005, Spring 2003
The culture of early 17th-century Europe as it was known (and created) by Sir Peter Paul Rubens, painter, scholar, and diplomat. Begins in Flanders and travels (with Rubens) to Italy, Spain, France and England, examining politics, religion and visual culture in each place. Key issues include the concept of artistic tradition; art and politics; crafting social status; workshop practice.The Age of Rubens: Read More [+]

HISTART 174Types of Dutch and Flemish Painting in the 17th Century4 Units

Terms offered: Prior to 2007
A general study of Netherlandish painting of the seventeenth century organized according to the genres or types of painting done at the time. The historical and social as well as the art historical contexts for the development in the Netherlands of such genres as history painting, portraiture, landscapes, still-life, and low-life and the kinds of meanings with which they were endowed.Types of Dutch and Flemish Painting in the 17th Century: Read More [+]

HISTART 175Visual Culture in Early Modern France: Renaissance to Enlightenment4 Units

Terms offered: Spring 2016, Fall 2013
French art from the 16th century to the mid 18th century. Beginning with the architecture, painting, prints, and decorative arts of the School of Fontainebleau, the course addresses the development of the Royal Academy and its interaction with popular culture, which culminates in the display of ambitious art in the public space of the pre-revolutionary Salon exhibition.Visual Culture in Early Modern France: Renaissance to Enlightenment: Read More [+]

HISTART 179Eighteenth-Century British Art3 Units

Terms offered: Summer 2001 10 Week Session
The story of art in 18th-century Britain involves the struggle to develop a national artistic identity which was distinct from the artistic traditions of Italy, Holland, and France. This course will address the meaning and function of history painting, portraiture, marine painting, and landscapes in relation to a rapidly expanding art market, taking into account the way that gender, class, and race played into the visual marking of status and power. We will also look at the ways in which visual culture helped to shape Britain's national identity as an emerging imperial power.Eighteenth-Century British Art: Read More [+]

HISTART 180ANineteenth-Century Europe: Age of Revolution4 Units

Terms offered: Spring 2013, Spring 2010, Spring 2005
Topics in late 18th- and early 19th-century European art, either focusing on a pertinent theme and/or nation (e.g. Romanticism and gender in France) or introducing the art of Europe as a whole during this tumultuous period of revolution and reaction.Nineteenth-Century Europe: Age of Revolution: Read More [+]

HISTART N180A19th-Century Europe: Age of Revolution3 Units

Terms offered: Summer 2002 10 Week Session
Topics in late 18th- and early 19th- century European art, either focusing on a pertinent theme and/or nation (e.g., Romanticism and gender in France) or introducing the art of Europe as a whole during this tumultuous period of revolution and reaction.19th-Century Europe: Age of Revolution: Read More [+]

HISTART N180BThe Body in Avant-Garde French Art3 Units

Terms offered: Summer 1998 10 Week Session
This course studies 19th-century art's search for a new visual language with which to represent the body. It explores ways in which sculptural and painted bodies convey, hide, and displace sexuality to create or prohibit desire, and how they produce different notions of femininity and masculinity. Artists to be discussed: Manet, Monet, Gauguin, Degas, Renoir, Pissarro, Morrisot, Cassatt, Rodin, Carpeaux, Cezanne, Millet, Courbet, Daumier, Claudel.The Body in Avant-Garde French Art: Read More [+]

HISTART N181French Art of the 19th Century3 Units

Terms offered: Summer 2004 10 Week Session, Summer 1999 10 Week Session, Summer 1997 10 Week Session
Introduction to French art from the Revolution to the First World War. Proceeds chronologically, putting visual art in the context of French political and social development.French Art of the 19th Century: Read More [+]

HISTART 183Art and Colonialism4 Units

Terms offered: Spring 2008, Fall 2007, Fall 2000
Consideration of the relationship between visual representation and conquest, colonialism and imperialism. Topics include the history of visual ethnographies, representations and constructions of "race," exoticism, orientalism, and primitivism.Art and Colonialism: Read More [+]

HISTART 183EAmerican Painting and Photography from the Civil War to WW II3 Units

Terms offered: Prior to 2007
The focus of this course will be significant works by American art-makers, analyzed in the context of the dramatic transformations which occured in American Art from the 1860's to the 1940's. Emphasis will be placed on the analysis of both indigenous and adopted modes of representation within their historical and art historical contexts. Students will be encouraged to acquire the ability to closely "read" and interpret visual images as primary historical "texts."American Painting and Photography from the Civil War to WW II: Read More [+]

HISTART 185From Manet to Mondrian3 Units

Terms offered: Summer 2001 10 Week Session, Summer 1987 10 Week Session
Study of major artists and movements in European art from 1860-1930. Will begin with Modernism in the work of Manet and proceed to an examination of Impressionism, Post-Impressionism, Symbolism, Expressionism, Fauvism, Cubism, Futurism, and early abstract art. Directions in the 20th century such as Dadaism and Surrealism will be addressed. Art will be considered in the cultural, political, social, and aesthetic contexts in which it was made. Emphasis is on painting, but important sculptors will be included.From Manet to Mondrian: Read More [+]

HISTART 185AAmerican Art (1800-Present)4 Units

Terms offered: Fall 2014, Spring 2014, Fall 2012
Looking at major developments in architecture, decorative arts, photography, and painting from Romanticism to post-modernism, this course addresses art and its social context over the last two centuries in what is now the United States. Issues include patronage, audience, technology, and the education of the artist as well as style and cultural expression. Field trips.American Art (1800-Present): Read More [+]

HISTART 185BAmerican Architecture: Domestic Forms4 Units

Terms offered: Spring 2018, Spring 2009, Fall 2005
Taking as a point of departure specific exemplary houses, both vernacular and high-style architectural forms are studied from the perspectives of the history of style, of technology and of social use. Both the class as a whole and the student research projects take a case-study approach. Field trips.American Architecture: Domestic Forms: Read More [+]

HISTART N185CContemporary American Art3 Units

Terms offered: Summer 2002 10 Week Session, Summer 2001 10 Week Session
In-depth study of visual culture in America, from 1960 to the present day, with particular attention to theoretical issues and the intersections of art with the culture at large. Previous course work in history of art recommended.Contemporary American Art: Read More [+]

HISTART 186AArt in the Early 20th Century4 Units

Terms offered: Fall 2013, Fall 2012, Summer 2008 Second 6 Week Session
A consideration of major issues in art of the early 20th century. May focus on a particular place and period (e.g., Art in Paris or 1900-1914) or on a major artistic problem (e.g., Abstraction and Figuration).Art in the Early 20th Century: Read More [+]

Rules & Requirements

Credit Restrictions: Students will receive no credit for History of Art 186A after taking History of Art 187.<BR/>

HISTART 186CArt in the Later 20th Century4 Units

Terms offered: Fall 2017, Fall 2015, Fall 2011
A consideration of major issues in art of the present day. Emphases may include conceptual, video, performance, installation and digital art, as well as painting, sculpture and experimental practices.Art in the Later 20th Century: Read More [+]

Rules & Requirements

Credit Restrictions: Students will receive no credit for History of Art 186C after taking History of Art 181, N181, S181, or S181X.

HISTART N186CArt in the Later 20th Century3 Units

Terms offered: Summer 2010 10 Week Session, Summer 2010 First 6 Week Session, Summer 2007 Second 6 Week Session
This course will take a close look at some of the art produced in Europe and America in the decades following the Second World War. In addition to painting, sculpture, and photography, we will also examine video, performance, and intermedia art. Of particular interest will be defining the balance of concerns demonstrated by artists during this time between form and content, abstraction and representation, and the intersection of their artworks with culture at large--including issues of technology, the body, commercial economy, and public space. Along with a wide range of images, our discussions will consider theoretical and critical texts.Art in the Later 20th Century: Read More [+]

HISTART 187ACRace and Representation in the Twentieth Century in the United States4 Units

Terms offered: Fall 2016, Summer 2016 First 6 Week Session, Spring 2014
The course examines a series of artistic formations and critiques of racial, ethnic, gender, class and religious identity among the diverse collection of individuals, cultures, and institutions that compose the United States. Material, formal, social, and political contexts will all be considered as we address a wide range of art practices and media.Race and Representation in the Twentieth Century in the United States: Read More [+]

Rules & Requirements

Requirements this course satisfies: Satisfies the American Cultures requirement

Repeat rules: Course may be repeated for credit when topic changes. Course may be repeated for credit when topic changes.

HISTART 188Latin American Art4 Units

Terms offered: Spring 2013
In this course, students will examine how Latin American artists have utilized local indigenous traditions as well as global avant-grade innovations within the context of specific national histories and landscapes. Additionally, students will look at murals, painting, photography, printmaking, street actions, and new media from Colombia, Cuba, Guatemala, and Mexico, as well as contemporary Californian Chicano artistic practices.Latin American Art: Read More [+]

HISTART 188ALatin American Art: Before Columbus4 Units

Terms offered: Spring 2017, Spring 2014
This course presents the indigenous artistic traditions of parts of what is now Latin America, from the earliest monuments of the formative periods (e.g. Olmec and Chavín), through acclaimed eras of aesthetic and technological achievement (e.g. Maya and Moche), to the later Inca and Mexica (i.e. Aztec) imperial periods. Our subject encompasses multiple genre including painting and sculpture, textiles and metalwork, architecture and performance. More than a recitation of periods, styles, and monuments, the course will assess the varieties of evidence available for interpretations of artworks that were created in diverse social, religious, and political settings.Latin American Art: Before Columbus: Read More [+]

HISTART 189Museums: An Introduction to the History and Practice of Collecting and the Public View1 Unit

Terms offered: Spring 2007, Summer 2001 10 Week Session
This course will consider museums from historical, practical, and contemporary ethical perspectives. We will visit four of the museums on the Berkeley campus, and from the various viewpoints of humanities, social science, and natural science, we will examine collecting, exhibition, research, and audience in the early 21st-century museum setting. The course will require reading, discussion, four short writing assignments, and one final exam.Museums: An Introduction to the History and Practice of Collecting and the Public View: Read More [+]

HISTART C189The American Forest: Its Ecology, History, and Representation4 Units

Terms offered: Spring 2012, Spring 2011, Spring 2007, Fall 2004
The American forest will be examined in terms of its ecology, history, and representations in paintings, photographs, and literary essays. This examination seeks to understand the American forest in its scientific and economic parameters, as well as the historic, social, and ideological dimensions which have contributed to the evolution of our present attitudes toward the forest.The American Forest: Its Ecology, History, and Representation: Read More [+]

HISTART 190ASpecial Topics in Fields of Art History: Asian4 Units

Terms offered: Fall 2016, Spring 2013, Spring 2011
Topics explore themes and problems, often reflect current research interests of the instructor, and supplement regular curricular offerings. Open to all interested students, including graduate students. Some background in art history desirable. For specific questions concerning preparation for a 190 course, please see individual instructor. Detailed descriptions of current and future offerings in this series available in 416 Doe Library.Special Topics in Fields of Art History: Asian: Read More [+]

HISTART 190BSpecial Topics in Fields of Art History: Ancient4 Units

Terms offered: Spring 2018, Spring 2014, Fall 2013
Topics explore themes and problems, often reflect current research interests of the instructor, and supplement regular curricular offerings. Open to all interested students, including graduate students. Some background in art history desirable. For specific questions concerning preparation for a 190 course, please see individual instructor. Detailed descriptions of current and future offerings in this series available in 416 Doe Library.Special Topics in Fields of Art History: Ancient: Read More [+]

HISTART 190CSpecial Topics in Fields of Art History: Medieval4 Units

Terms offered: Spring 2014, Spring 2010, Fall 2009
Topics explore themes and problems, often reflect current research interests of the instructor, and supplement regular curricular offerings. Open to all interested students, including graduate students. Some background in art history desirable. For specific questions concerning preparation for a 190 course, please see individual instructor. Detailed descriptions of current and future offerings in this series available in 416 Doe Library.Special Topics in Fields of Art History: Medieval: Read More [+]

Terms offered: Spring 2008, Spring 2005, Fall 2004
Topics explore themes and problems, often reflect current research interests of the instructor, and supplement regular curricular offerings. Open to all interested students, including graduate students. Some background in art history desirable. For specific questions concerning preparation for a 190 course, please see individual instructor. Detailed descriptions of current and future offerings in this series available in 416 Doe Library.Special Topics in Fields of Art History: 15th-16th Century: Read More [+]

HISTART 190DHDigital Humanities for Art Historians6 Units

Terms offered: Prior to 2007
An introduction to methods of digital imaging and computational visualization that are relevant to art historical investigation. Topics may include digital photography, modeling/rendering, and network visualization. Some background in art history desirable. For specific questions concerning preparation, please contact the instructor.Digital Humanities for Art Historians: Read More [+]

Terms offered: Fall 2014, Fall 2009, Spring 2007
Topics explore themes and problems, often reflect current research interests of the instructor, and supplement regular curricular offerings. Open to all interested students, including graduate students. Some background in art history desirable. For specific questions concerning preparation for a 190 course, please see individual instructor. Detailed descriptions of current and future offerings in this series available in 416 Doe Library.Special Topics in Fields of Art History: 17th-18th Century: Read More [+]

Terms offered: Spring 2016, Fall 2013, Summer 2012 First 6 Week Session
Topics explore themes and problems, often reflect current research interests of the instructor, and supplement regular curricular offerings. Open to all interested students, including graduate students. Some background in art history desirable. For specific questions concerning preparation for a 190 course, please see individual instructor.Special Topics in Fields of Art History: 19th-20th Century: Read More [+]

Terms offered: Spring 2015, Fall 2013, Spring 2010
Topics explore themes and problems, often reflect current research interests of the instructor, and supplement regular curricular offerings. Open to all interested students, including graduate students. Some background in art history desirable. For specific questions concerning preparation for a 190 course, please see individual instructor. Detailed descriptions of current and future offerings in this series available in 416 Doe Library.Special Topics in Fields of Art History: American/British: Read More [+]

Terms offered: Fall 2014
Topics explore themes and problems, often reflect current research interests of the instructor, and supplement regular curricular offerings. Open to all interested students, including graduate students. Some background in art history desirable. For specific questions concerning preparation for a 190 course, please see individual instructor. Detailed descriptions of current and future offerings in this series available in 416 Doe Library.Special Topics in Fields of Art History: Contemporary: Read More [+]

Terms offered: Spring 2018, Spring 2016, Spring 2015
Topics explore themes and problems that often reflect current research interests of the instructor, and supplement regular curricular offerings. Open to all interested students, including graduate students. Some background in art history desirable. For specific questions concerning preparation for a 190 course, please see individual instructor. Detailed descriptions of current and future offerings in this series available in 416 Doe Library.Special Topics in Fields of Art History: Global Modernism: Read More [+]

HISTART 190TTranscultural4 Units

Terms offered: Spring 2018, Fall 2016, Fall 2014
Topics explore themes and problems, often reflect current research interests of the instructor, and supplement regular curricular offerings. Open to all interested students, including graduate students. Some background in art history desirable. For specific questions concerning preparation for a 190 course, please consult individual instructor. Detailed descriptions of current and future offerings in this series available on arthistory.berkeley.edu.
Course may be repeated for credit when topic changes. Final exam not required.Transcultural: Read More [+]

Rules & Requirements

Repeat rules: Course may be repeated for credit when topic changes. Course may be repeated for credit when topic changes.

HISTART N190Special Topics in Fields of Art History0.0 Units

Terms offered: Prior to 2007
Topics explore themes and problems, often reflect current research interests of the instructor, and supplement regular curricular offerings. Open to all interested students, including graduate students. Some background in art history desirable. For specific questions concerning preparation for a 190 course, please see individual instructor. Detailed descriptions of current and future offerings in this series available in 416 Doe Library.Special Topics in Fields of Art History: Read More [+]

HISTART N190ASpecial Topics in Fields of Art History: Asian3 Units

Terms offered: Summer 2010 First 6 Week Session, Summer 2009 First 6 Week Session
Topics explore themes and problems, often reflect current research interests of the instructor, and supplement regular curricular offerings. Open to all interested students, including graduate students. Some background in art history desirable. For specific questions concerning preparation for a 190 course, please see individual instructor. Detailed descriptions of current and future offerings in this series available in 416 Doe Library.Special Topics in Fields of Art History: Asian: Read More [+]

HISTART N190BSpecial Topics in Fields of Art History: Ancient3 Units

Terms offered: Summer 2007 First 6 Week Session, Summer 2006 10 Week Session, Summer 1997 10 Week Session
Topics explore themes and problems, often reflect current research interests of the instructor, and supplement regular curricular offerings. Open to all interested students, including graduate students. Some background in art history desirable. For specific questions concerning preparation for a 190 course, please see individual instructor. Detailed descriptions of current and future offerings in this series available in 416 Doe Library.Special Topics in Fields of Art History: Ancient: Read More [+]

HISTART N190CSpecial Topics in Fields of Art History: Medieval3 Units

Terms offered: Summer 1996 10 Week Session
Topics explore themes and problems, often reflect current research interests of the instructor, and supplement regular curricular offerings. Open to all interested students, including graduate students. Some background in art history desirable. For specific questions concerning preparation for a 190 course, please see individual instructor. Detailed descriptions of current and future offerings in this series available in 416 Doe Library.Special Topics in Fields of Art History: Medieval: Read More [+]

Terms offered: Summer 2012 10 Week Session, Summer 2012 Second 6 Week Session
Topics explore themes and problems, often reflect current research interests of the instructor, and supplement regular curricular offerings. Open to all interested students, including graduate students. Some background in art history desirable. For specific questions concerning preparation for a 190 course, please see individual instructor. Detailed descriptions of current and future offerings in this series available in 416 Doe Library.Special Topics in Fields of Art History: 15th-16th Century: Read More [+]

Terms offered: Summer 2018 First 6 Week Session, Summer 2003 10 Week Session, Summer 1997 10 Week Session
Topics explore themes and problems, often reflect current research interests of the instructor, and supplement regular curricular offerings. Open to all interested students, including graduate students. Some background in art history desirable. For specific questions concerning preparation for a 190 course, please see individual instructor. Detailed descriptions of current and future offerings in this series available in 416 Doe Library.Special Topics in Fields of Art History: 17th-18th Century: Read More [+]

Terms offered: Summer 2007 10 Week Session, Summer 2007 First 6 Week Session, Summer 2006 10 Week Session
Topics explore themes and problems, often reflect current research interests of the instructor, and supplement regular curricular offerings. Open to all interested students, including graduate students. Some background in art history desirable. For specific questions concerning preparation for a 190 course, please see individual instructor. Detailed descriptions of current and future offerings in this series available in 416 Doe Library.Special Topics in Fields of Art History: 19th-20th Century: Read More [+]

Terms offered: Prior to 2007
Topics explore themes and problems, often reflect current research interests of the instructor, and supplement regular curricular offerings. Open to all interested students, including graduate students. Some background in art history desirable. For specific questions concerning preparation for a 190 course, please see individual instructor. Detailed descriptions of current and future offerings in this series available in 416 Doe Library.Special Topics in Fields of Art History: American/British: Read More [+]

Terms offered: Prior to 2007
Topics explore themes and problems, often reflect current research interests of the instructor, and supplement regular curricular offerings. Open to all interested students, including graduate students. Some background in art history desirable. For specific questions concerning preparation for a 190 course, please see individual instructor. Detailed descriptions of current and future offerings in this series available in 416 Doe Library.Special Topics in Fields of Art History: Precolumbian/Latin American: Read More [+]

HISTART 192ACUndergraduate Seminar: Folk Art in America4 Units

Terms offered: Fall 2008, Fall 2003
This seminar will look at specific case studies of the production and use of architecture, paintings, and quilting within specific communities in what is now the United States. We will look, for instance, at Shaker watercolors and design; Puritan painting and city planning; Amish, Hawaiian, and Hmong quilting; the ledger drawings and domestic structures of specific Native American groups; and the sacred architecture of the Hispanic southwest. Our timeframe spans four centuries but our "geographies" will be very focused. We will consider vernacular or folk production within the context of politics and economics as well as aesthetic and social theory.Undergraduate Seminar: Folk Art in America: Read More [+]

Rules & Requirements

Prerequisites: Primarily for juniors and seniors in the major or consent of instructor

Requirements this course satisfies: Satisfies the American Cultures requirement

HISTART 192CUUndergraduate Seminar: Problems in Research and Interpretation: Curatorial4 Units

Terms offered: Fall 2017, Fall 2016, Spring 2016
Concentration on specific problems or works in a particular area of art history. Assigned readings, discussion, and a substantial paper. For specific topics and enrollment, see listings outside 416 Doe Library.

Terms offered: Spring 2017, Fall 2016, Spring 2014
An introduction to digital modeling and rendering as forms of art-historical investigation. A series of case studies will allow students to explore the research possibilities presented by this new medium. Students will construct their own digital models as part of a research project.Undergraduate Seminar: Digital Imaging and Forensic Art History: Read More [+]

Rules & Requirements

Prerequisites: Primarily for juniors and seniors in the major or consent of instructor

Terms offered: Spring 2018, Fall 2012, Fall 2008
This undergraduate semiar examines the resurgence of craft within contemporary art and theory. In a time when much art is outsourced--fabricated by large stables of assistants--what does it mean when artists return to traditional, and traditionally laborious, methods of handiwork such as knitting, ceramics, or woodworking? Our readings will consider historical and theoretical questions of process, materiality, skill, bodily effort, gendered labor, and alternative economies of production.Undergraduate Seminar: Problems in Research and Interpretation: Modern/Contemporary Art: Read More [+]

Rules & Requirements

Prerequisites: Primarily for juniors and seniors in the major or consent of instructor

HISTART 192LUndergraduate Seminar: Latin American4 Units

Terms offered: Spring 2018, Fall 2015, Spring 2015
This seminar will focus on a particular theme or corpus of art and visual culture from the Pre-Columbian, colonial, and/or modern and contemporary periods of areas of what is now Latin America. Topics will vary with each offering.Undergraduate Seminar: Latin American: Read More [+]

Rules & Requirements

Prerequisites: Primarily for juniors and seniors in the major or consent of instructor

HISTART 193Directed Research4 Units

Terms offered: Spring 2017, Spring 2013, Spring 2012
Intended for advanced undergraduates wishing to continue research on topics already begun in a lecture or seminar or to pursue at a high level specialized topics not ordinarily covered in the curriculum. Usually results in a substantial paper. For general independent study see 199; for honors research, see H195.Directed Research: Read More [+]

HISTART 194Museum Internship1 - 4 Units

Terms offered: Spring 2018, Fall 2017, Spring 2017
Study and practical professional experience, usually for no fewer than 10 hours per week, involving a substantial project of a curatorial nature. Jointly supervised by a member of the professional staff of the participating museum and a faculty member. Internships ordinarily must be arranged well in advance; for further information, inquire at 416 Doe Library.Museum Internship: Read More [+]

HISTART C196BUCDC Internship6.5 Units

Terms offered: Spring 2018, Fall 2017, Spring 2017, Fall 2016, Spring 2016, Fall 2015, Spring 2015, Spring 2014, Fall 2013, Spring 2013, Fall 2012, Spring 2012
This course provides a credited internship for all students enrolled in the UCDC and Cal in the Capital Programs. It must be taken in conjunction with the required academic core course C196A. C196B requires that students work 3-4 days per week as interns in settings selected to provide them with exposure to and experienc in government, public policy, international affairs, media, the arts or other areas or relevance to their major fields of study.UCDC Internship: Read More [+]

HISTART C196WSpecial Field Research10.5 Units

Terms offered: Spring 2018, Fall 2017, Spring 2017, Fall 2016, Spring 2016, Fall 2015, Spring 2015, Fall 2014, Spring 2014, Spring 2013
Students work in selected internship programs approved in advance by the faculty coordinator and for which written contracts have been established between the sponsoring organization and the student. Students will be expected to produce two progress reports for their faculty coordinator during the course of the internship, as well as a final paper for the course consisting of at least 35 pages. Other restrictions apply; see faculty adviser.Special Field Research: Read More [+]

Rules & Requirements

Prerequisites: Consent of instructor

Repeat rules: Course may be repeated for credit up to a total of 12 units.Course may be repeated for a maximum of 12 units.

HISTART 199Supervised Independent Study1 - 4 Units

Terms offered: Spring 2018, Fall 2017, Spring 2017
For students wishing to pursue an interest not represented in the curriculum by developing an individual program of study supervised by a faculty member. Study may involve readings, projects, papers, fieldwork, etc. For continuing or advanced research projects, see 193.Supervised Independent Study: Read More [+]

Rules & Requirements

Prerequisites: Consent of instructor, major adviser and department chair

HISTART 200Graduate Proseminar in the Interpretation of Art Historical Materials2 or 4 Units

Terms offered: Fall 2017, Fall 2016, Fall 2015
An introduction to the fundamentals of art history, including traditional and innovative perspectives designed for candidates for higher degrees. Offerings vary from year to year. Students should consult the department's "Announcement of Classes" for offerings before the beginning of the semester.Graduate Proseminar in the Interpretation of Art Historical Materials: Read More [+]

HISTART 203Seminar in Material Culture: The Interpretation of Objects2 or 4 Units

Terms offered: Spring 2018, Fall 2014, Spring 2012
This seminar looks at both material culture theory and the practice of interpreting objects in the West and in Asia. It draws on the practices and inquiries of multiple disciplines including archaeology, anthropology, cultural geography, and art history . We will consider the variety of ways and contexts in which objects have been understood to "speak" as aesthetic vehicles and as cultural texts. Taught by two faculty members who have extensive experience as museum curators--one of American Art, the other of Asian Art, this class will combine theory with hands-on learning.Seminar in Material Culture: The Interpretation of Objects: Read More [+]

Terms offered: Fall 2015, Spring 2012, Spring 2010
This seminar is intended to introduce graduate students--both archaeologists and non-archaeologists--to the discipline of classical archaeology, history, and evolution, and its research tools and bibliography. Since it is both impossible and undesirable to attempt to cover the entire discipline in one semester, after two introductory lectures on the history of the field, we will address a selection of topics that seems representative of its concerns.Proseminar in Classical Archaeology and Ancient Art: Read More [+]

Rules & Requirements

Prerequisites: Working knowledge of Latin, Greek, and German or French or Italian

HISTART C220Seminar in Near Eastern Art2 or 4 Units

Terms offered: Fall 2012
Seminar on critical aspects of Near Eastern art requiring intensive study and presentation of a research paper. Topics vary from semester to semester.Seminar in Near Eastern Art: Read More [+]

HISTART 263Seminar in European Art: Mimesis2 or 4 Units

Terms offered: Spring 2014
Mimesis, Greek for "imitation" is a key term in recent debates in a number of disciplines. However, what is at its core is often astonishingly undefined, open and ambivalent. Starting with antique and medieval works addressing key moments of mimesis we will also explore modern theories of mimesis. Crossing the threshold between pre-modern and modern examples will help us to understand the premises for the visual culture involving the rise of naturalism, and more generally the nature of representation in medieval and early modern culture.Seminar in European Art: Mimesis: Read More [+]

HISTART 298Group Study for Graduate Students in the History of Art1 - 4 Units

Terms offered: Spring 2018, Fall 2017, Spring 2017
Directed group discussion for graduate students, focused on selected books, articles, problems, primary sources, and/or works of art. Usually but not necessarily offered as preparation for a travel seminar or other supervised fieldwork.Group Study for Graduate Students in the History of Art: Read More [+]

Rules & Requirements

Prerequisites: Graduate standing and consent of instructor, and possibly courses in the history of art

HISTART 300Supervised Teaching of History of Art1 - 5 Units

Terms offered: Spring 2018, Fall 2017, Spring 2017
Weekly meetings with the instructor to discuss the methods and aims of the course, to plan the content and presentation of the material for the discussion sections, and to set standards and criteria for grading and commenting upon papers and exams. In addition, after visiting sections early in the semester, the instructor will discuss with each GSI individually his or her performance and make any necessary recommendations for improvement.Supervised Teaching of History of Art: Read More [+]

HISTART 375Seminar in History of Art Teaching2 Units

Terms offered: Fall 2017, Fall 2016, Fall 2015
This pedagogical seminar introduces graduate students to methods and theories of teaching history of art. The course has two primary goals: (1) to train new graduate student instructors to assist in teaching History of Art classes at UCB; and (2) to introduce students to techniques of designing and teaching their own classes. The seminar may be taken concurrently with the first teaching assignment or in the semester before beginning teaching.Seminar in History of Art Teaching: Read More [+]

Rules & Requirements

Prerequisites: Graduate standing and consent of instructor

Hours & Format

Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 2 hours of seminar per week

Additional Details

Subject/Course Level: History of Art/Professional course for teachers or prospective teachers

Lauren Kroiz, Assistant Professor. History and theory of photography and new media, race and ethnic studies, the relationships between regionalism, nationalism and globalism.

Henrike Lange, Assistant Professor.

Anneka Lenssen, Assistant Professor.

Gregory Levine, Associate Professor. East Asian studies, history of art, Japanese art and architecture, histories of collecting, history of museums, Buddhist art and architecture, Buddhist visual culture.Research Profile

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